EXTRA - The Wario Hop - Mini-Game Shop - Wario Land 4

3 laps of different configurations and music and speed. I get them all! Hop to it!

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This is the first mini-game in the mini-game shop and... it's the best one! Honestly, it's kinda a precursor to all those "Runner" games you see on the phone where all you gotta do is press a button at the right time to avoid failure!

Here, we have Wario possibly after crashing the Wario-Car. Or maybe he needs more gas. Or maybe he's just working out? Whatever the case may be, he's taken a tire from his car and is running on it across the desert. Turns out the desert isn't quite so deserted and is populated with various obstacles to jump over! Living obstacles that produce musical cues if you hop over them correctly.

Thus: The Wario Hop!
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Some additional notes for those technically inclined:

The DS essentially has a GBA built-in and plays it exactly the same as a GBA system would. I'm using a video capture device that has been installed on my DS system to output the video to my computer/TV. I use the TV screen like a "Super GBA/DS" to play on the big screen, and also record at the same time (in a lossless format)! The original resolution of a GBA game is 240 x 160, so one problem to overcome was how to "blow up" the image without hurting it... because Youtube requires videos to be in 1080p or 720p to played back at 60fps and the GBA IS 60fps capable!

Well, to maintain the pixel art that most GBA games use, we can use a very simple resizing algorithm, "nearest neighbor", that essentially multiplies the "pixels" in a proper ratio to keep everything looking the same... but bigger! This can only be done by integer values, whole numbers, not fractions. So, the video can be blown up EXACTLY 2 times, or 3 times, or 4 times, and so on! The GBA does not fit exactly into a 1080p (or 720p) space which is why you will see some black area, but this ensures the proper size is maintained and that Youtube will accept it. If you use a fractional resize value to make it exactly 1080 pixels tall, you will get some graphical anomalies like, an eye being larger than the other, or a line being longer than it was originally, text being misshapen, and so on. So no cheating! If you use a resize filter that softens the image a bit, you can resize to pretty much any size you want, but this hurts old-school pixel art! (It looks blurry!) Conversely, using the "Nearest Neigbor" algorithm on NON-Pixelated material will make that look worse, too! There's no one-size fits all!

The GBA is natively progressive so there's no need to deinterlace, kinda like modern HD consoles! Neat!

Enjoy the crystal-clarity!